philip mudd: i think it's a net inevitable. i mean, if you look at globalization and the way economics is moving, you can't anticipate that 1.3 billion chinese are going to live at the level they lived 30 years ago, and then you start to see 10 percent growth every year. so like it or not, you can sit here and talk about american exceptionalism, which i thought was quite surprising, 70 percent of americans still subscribe to that. but you're going to have to accept decades ahead when the brics and others compete economically and also are going to look at that economic performance and say "i want a bigger slice of the pie." you just have to look at the u.n. security council, five nations that represent world war ii powers, to say that paradigm can't live forever. so like it or not, it's going to change. the only other thing i'd say to echo what general hayden said is, sitting at the threat table at both the cia and the fbi, i'm surprised how much americans think about past wars. you know, historians always say the past doesn't d